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Buswell's Hotel — Molesworth Street

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Buswell's Hotel — Molesworth Street
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Attached two-bay four-storey house, dated 1736, having two-storey rear return, and internally amalgamated with adjoining buildings as a hotel. Cruciform slate roof, hidden by curvilinear parapet with stone coping, return having flat roof; with cast-iron downpipes. Painted rendered walling, having stringcourse between ground and first floors, channelled rendered walling to ground floor, and with narrow quoin band strip to first and second floors. Square-headed window openings with patent reveals and painted masonry sills, openings diminishing in width and height to upper floors. Timber sliding sash windows, six-over-six pane to lower floors and three-over-three pane to top floor. Elliptical-headed door opening with pole-moulded lining, plain fanlight, and recent door and reproduction Ionic doorcase. Recent tiles to basement platform. Basement area enclosed by replacement metal railings on recent reconstituted stone plinth. Lower building of similar date to east and taller eighteenth-century buildings to west.

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